Admissions

Undergraduate Studies

The four-year Undergraduate program at MSM is designed for students with a high-school diploma who wish to study Composition, Instrumental Performance, Jazz (excluding Jazz Voice and Jazz Composition), Musical Theatre and Voice.

The program offers the aspiring professional musician rigorous curricula in performance or composition and consists of four areas of concentration:

Major field of study

Course work in music-related subjects

Ensemble performance

Humanities

The Bachelor of Music curriculum at MSM embraces not only the traditional conservatory subjects such as music history and music theory, but also an intensive humanities core, with an emphasis on literature, history, and expository writing.

Students learn to become complete artists, and arts leaders, with a deep knowledge of the world, and themselves.

Please note: The conservatory is not for beginning students on any instruments.

Undergraduate Jazz Arts Majors

Musical Theatre Program

Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program

Pinchas Zukerman, the internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor, accepts a limited number of exceptionally gifted violinists and violists as private students at Manhattan School of Music each year.